Advance pic #2 for Maybe Day 2026. #RobertAntonWilson. Hi-res version: rawsemanticshome.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Going offline for a few months, so a couple of advance pics for Maybe Day 2026. #RobertAntonWilson #1 Hi-res version: rawsemanticshome.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-billion/

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Please do read Jaron Lanier's book. I've just re-read it. Amazing book, full of immediately relevant insights. Don't be put off by the title. It's a short, fun, hugely *essential* read. (Btw, 6yrs ago I wrote a post meshing Lanier & RAW's semantics: rawsemantics.home.blog/2020/08/13/r...)

Please do read Jaron Lanier's book. I've just re-read it. Amazing book, full of immediately relevant insights. Don't be put off by the title. It's a short, fun, hugely *essential* read. (Btw, 6yrs ago I wrote a post meshing Lanier & RAW's semantics: rawsemantics.home.blog/2020/08/13/r...)

Btw, FIRE's Nico Perrino asked me to comment further on my point that the main AI-"media" threats to speech in fact counter-intuitively exist OUTSIDE the "free speech vs censorship" dichotomy. I suspect it'll be misunderstood, but FWIW:

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So much of the AI / SM-algorithm problem/threat exists (by its nature) OUTSIDE the dichotomy of free speech vs censorship. One shouldn't try to conceptually crowbar it into that binary. Of course government overstepping remains a bad thing. But government isn't the only Big Coercive Entity in town.

Jaron Lanier on Channel 4 News, 2018. Good summary of his views on social media. Silicon Valley insider, there at start, helped build foundations of current tech landscape, knows what he's talking about. Also vocal critic of the industry. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_J...

I just signed Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data. Add your name: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...

Jaron Lanier on Channel 4 News, 2018. Good summary of his views on social media. Silicon Valley insider, there at start, helped build foundations of current tech landscape, knows what he's talking about. Also vocal critic of the industry. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_J...

This take frankly surprises me. There's a vast amount of evidence that social media algorithms cause harm. That doesn't mean algorithms are all bad or that we can't have algorithms that work to a healthier business model (one not driven by maximising engagement for profit). bsky.app/profile/tayl...

Most people are for freedom, against coercion. But some see coercion *only* in governments, not in markets. In markets, it's called "competition", even if it looks like coercion. That comes from Platonic 'Natural Law'-type ideology. How so? Read: rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/06/17/r...

You get a lot of resistance to this idea from clichéd rightwing-type ideology. One such cliché was described well by Robert Anton Wilson:

“‘I very early in my life decided I didn’t believe in the capitalist system. Frederick Soddy, the physicist, said, “Economics? It should be called banditry.” I mean it’s the science of robbing and looting, organized.‘ – Robert Anton Wilson, 2001 (Lance Bauscher interview)”

Robert Anton Wilson with an early prophecy about American resistance to Mamdani-style Scandanavian socialism. From @rawsemantics.bsky.social's article, “Libertarian..? Scandinavian..? Excluded middle..!!” rawsemantics.home.blog/2024/11/28/l...

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I've followed this closely after reading Eoin's book. Didn't surprise me that Matt Taibbi's (absurdly weak) defamation lawsuit got dismissed. Taibbi comes across as the real enemy of free speech in all this - using his wealth to silence (& hurt) his critics. bsky.app/profile/eoin...

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Most people are for freedom, against coercion. But some see coercion *only* in governments, not in markets. In markets, it's called "competition", even if it looks like coercion. That comes from Platonic 'Natural Law'-type ideology. How so? Read: rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/06/17/r...

Part 2 of new post - 'Right Men, Natural Law & Platonic Free Markets'. Goes into more detail on Platonic Free Markets & the so-called "Free market of ideas". #RobertAntonWilson rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/06/17/r...

'The Occult Timothy Leary': Two new reviews www.rawillumination.net/2026/06/the-...

That this crucial matter - and related issues - gets so little coverage says something about the info-realm we live in. The Deregulatory Platonists have been winning the framing wars. Hopefully this can change... before it's too late. bsky.app/profile/huma...

Spring Blooms Eternal! Newest Substack about Bloomsday, Robert Anton Wilson, Chapel Perilous, and Kool Artists doing Kool Shit! gabrielpatrickkennedy.substack.com/p/spring-blo...

A review of Jos. Flatley's 2026 book The Occult Timothy Leary, which focuses on Leary's life, his influences & especially the influence of Crowley's tarot deck and corresponding symbols and knowledge between systems, whether they be psychological, sociological, philosophical, scientific, or occult.

Part 2 of new post - 'Right Men, Natural Law & Platonic Free Markets'. Goes into more detail on Platonic Free Markets & the so-called "Free market of ideas". #RobertAntonWilson rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/06/17/r...

Some US libertarians are pro-UBI, but many seem hostile. FGA, a billionaire-funded group behind bills to ban Basic Income pilots, has a lot of donors (incl. usual Scaife, Koch, etc - small sum from Koch. Cato's Robert Levy served on FGA board). @scottsantens.com www.scottsantens.com/billionaire-...

Hoping to get those contributor numbers up :))) If you have $3 and want to see the series continue, do please hit us up!

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer. Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering via @theverge.com www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Like the anti-democratic 'Natural Law' cultists that RAW critiqued (and satirized), Peter Thiel seems to base his anti-democracy views on medieval metaphysics: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

RAW Semantics returns with new essay @rawsemantics.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2026/06/raw-...

Part 1 of new post - 'Right Men, Natural Law & Platonic Free Markets' #RobertAntonWilson - now online. (Part 2 next week) rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/06/02/r...

Downside of AI that "AI slop" criticism misses - "all" post-AI human creative output will become suspect ("Did they use AI?") People will point to their pre-AI era work as bona fides. Unrelated: here's my 90s project that RAW linked to & praised. I manipulated old CDR clip-art & taught myself HTML.

New GD Newsletter :))) bobby-campbell.ghost.io/maybe-days-a...

MAYBE DAY 2026 IS COMING! More info here :))) www.maybeday.net

Part 1 of new post - 'Right Men, Natural Law & Platonic Free Markets' #RobertAntonWilson - now online. (Part 2 next week) rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/06/02/r...

I found this interesting - Yuval Noah Harari & Sam Harris on information. Much of it to do with escaping conventional *binary* thinking, on things like truth, order, freedom... so overlaps with RAW's themes (without his particular lexicon) at least for flexible minds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEEm...

Back online temporarily & hope to have a long blog post up soon. Meanwhile, catching up, and here's a brilliant piece of writing from @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social on 'Elite Theory', class, the Powell Memo, etc: overweeninggeneralist.substack.com/p/elite-theo...

'New RAW images (2026)' - new blog post with some fresh photos & artwork. #RobertAntonWilson Link: rawsemantics.home.blog/2026/03/17/n...

The incomparable Robert Anton Wilson died on this day (11 January) nineteen years ago. More than ever, read his books!

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This is a footnote from my last blog post (rawsemantics.home.blog/2025/12/04/r...) comparing 𝗪𝗶𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 & 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮. (Wikipedia has been under attack by some conservatives, who regard it as biased. But I trust its decentralized *reliability* model a million times more than I trust Musk's Grok).

Many things that aren't censorship or which don't fit into a "free speech" vs censorship EITHER/OR logic can be dishonestly framed as censorship. This seems one of the main games of Musk, Vance et al. And some US "libertarian" media (eg @reason.com) tend to swallow it whole bsky.app/profile/noup...

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